Reviews and Awards
"Sexton's analysis demonstrates that he spent a great deal of time reading and analysing primary source documents from the period...Interesting and well-researched."--Marc D. Weidenmier, H-Net
"An outstanding synthesis of diplomatic and business history...A gracefully written book, full of original research, Debtor Diplomacy shows that financiers were major players in mid-nineteenth-century Anglo-American relations. Not least among their achievements was helping to create the foundations of the so-called special relationship."--Business History Review
"This book provides a good overall survey and many new insights. It is an enjoyable read throughout, and should be useful for scholars and students alike."--Journal of American Studies
"Jay Sexton's carefully wrought and judicious analysis of the interconnection between finance and diplomacy is a major contribution to the history of foreign relations during the Civil War...The author proves the value of bringing fresh thinking to old problems. Debtor Diplomacy is a well-written and enterprising addition to the nineteenth-century bookshelf."--American Nineteenth Century History
"[T]his history of the financial diplomacy of the mid-nineteenth century will long serve as the standard work on a topic of monumental importance."--Dustin Walcher, H-Diplo Roundtable